Verbatim

From the handout, referenced in the book, called WHAT IS DAVIDSON BASKETBALL?:

4. Mental Toughness:

a. You will be at your best at the defining moment.

b. You will keep your poise even in the most difficult situations.

c. You will put complete trust in yourself, your teammates, and our system. You will believe in yourself, your teammates, our system.

d. You will fight from the beginning of the game and persist until the final buzzer. You will never give up. We will play for 40 minutes, every second, every game.

e. If you make a mistake or things get emotional, you will have the discipline to remain passionate, but you will take that passion inward.

f. You will not get distracted by the referees’ bad call, opponents’ trash talk, fan reaction, of if you are taken out of the game.

g. You will listen, you will see, you will hear, you will watch.